The Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Sarajevo Film Festival ended with an award ceremony after more than 230 films from 70 countries were screened. Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” won the Best Feature Film award while Philip Sotnychenko won the best director award for
William Friedkin, the groundbreaking U.S. director of “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” died on Aug. 7, a family friend told AFP. He was 87. Friedkin passed away in Los Angeles after suffering unspecified health issues in recent years, said Stephen Galloway,
Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott teaming up again for Napoleon. Over two decades after their collaboration on the Oscar-winning film Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix and director Sir Ridley Scott are teaming up once again for another ambitious project, Napoleon. In a recent interview with Empire Magazine,
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie made a historic $155m in its opening weekend. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starred has now grossed over half a billion dollars, driving cinema’s busiest week since pre-pandemic times. Per Deadline’s reporting, the running total on Gerwig’s take on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are facing off against Barbie at the box office. Paramount’s animated adventure ”Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” is projected to pick up $35 million to $45 million in its first five days of release. But those ticket
The last decade was full of successes for Turkish cinema. It began with Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Golden Bear win at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival with Honey (2010), his latest installment of the Yusuf Trilogy. The achievements of Turkish filmmakers continued to
How It Started… In the first days of the new decade, theaters opened with the final chapter of the iconic trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Sam Mendes’ one-shot war drama 1917, and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women. On February
The covered passages of Istanbul are an integral part of the city’s unique charm. Like the famous arcades of Paris, the passages of Istanbul were built in the European district of Pera now Beyoğlu, often opening to the main street, the Grande
My previous column was on cinema. Actually, it was on cinematic, fictional TV series, centering on the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder. While I enjoy writing about film (not writing critiques of it, just writing about it) I did not think I would
Struggling cinemas are hit with a blow as the new Bond film is delayed until spring 2021. British cinema company Cineworld is closing 127 branches across the UK and Ireland as a result of the new Bond film ‘No Time To Die’s
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